Schedule
of Lectures
and
Readings
(Subject to slight variation; be sure to check this website regularly
for readings and assignments!)

Note
on
readings: Textbook readings are
listed
for
the week. The textbook reading should be completed by the end of
each week. The primary source readings are listed under different
days of the week and should be read by the day under which they are
assigned.
You should be prepared to discuss the primary-source readings in your
discussion sections where there will be a 1-page response paper or a
3-page cycle paper due every week
except for weeks 1, 8, and 14. Be sure to print out any necessary
documents and bring them and/or your reader to your Thursday discussion
section.

HWCM = Dale Irvin &
Scott Sunquist, History of the World
Christian Movement (your
textbook for the course)RWCH = John Coakley & Andrea Sterk, eds., Readings in World Christian History.
Earliest Christianity to 1453 (your main sourcebook for the
course)

Recommended:
R.W. Southern, "Fringe Orders and Anti-Orders," Western Society and
the Church in The MiddleAges,pp. 300-331

F,
12/3

Discussion: Women, Men &
Medieval
Spirituality

Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God, RWCH, 347-354

Readings from 12/1 & 12/3 (Hadewijch, Margery, Thomas
of Celano)

No
cycle papers; 1-page reponse due

Week
16 - Meanwhile Around the
Globe...

Textbook Reading:
HWCM, Chs. 35-37
&
beginning of Ch. 38 pp.450--495; be sure to read
459-463 and 492 to 495 carefully for background to the primary
source reading
for
Monday!
Recommended: finish last chapter, pp.492-504 (after you
finish all other reading for this week)

M,
12/6

The
Trials of the Church in Asia
Brief Discussion: An Asian Christian Looks at Christian Europe

The Lives of
Mar Yahbh-Allaha and Rabban Sawma, RWCH, 373-384. (Full
text: History
of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma, Envoy and Plenipotentiary
of the MongolKhans to the Kings of Europe and Markos
who as Yahbh-Allaha III Became
Patriarch of theNestorian Church in Asia)

1-page Response or
Optional
Paper due (1-page response required
if
you do not do optional paper)